Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway (PC)

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review

In a nutshell:
After a successful tour of duty on the current gen consoles Brothers in Arms returns in the ultimate WWII squad based shooter, set during the closing months of the war as you take part in the crucial Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands.

The lowdown:
Although there were many astonishing looking games at the recent E3 event this was for most people the most graphically amazing next gen game seen so far. The levels not only look near photorealistic but the game world is huge and almost completely interactive. The gameplay works in the same basic way as before, with an easy to use onscreen cursor enabling you to direct your men with a single button press. New movement types now exist though, allowing you to specify stealth or patrol postures depending on what you’re doing and how fast you need to move. The only problem is the enemy have the same abilities and their artificial intelligence is advanced enough to make proper use of them.

Most exciting moment:
Not only are the enemy intelligent but they’re also well trained, reacting just as a real German soldier would. They’ll hide in doorways, ambush at road junctions and even, in one memorable encounter, hide behind a washing line – where your only warning is from a Dutch civilian at a window above.

Since you ask:
Everything in the game is as realistic as possible with streets and house copied exactly from photos taken at the time, while all weapons and vehicles are modelled to work exactly as they did in real life.

The bottom line:
The most realistic WWII game ever – in terms of history, tactics and graphics.
HARRISON DENT

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-12-24 rating:
Not Impressed
I have always been a big fan of first person shooters, played all the COD range/Doom, Medal of Honour Airborne Assault etc and enjoyed them all.
This game though is slow, headshots do not kill the enemy and in general it is on par with pacific assault as being a waste of money.
Get Far Cry2 or Call of Duty World at War instead.

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review by: ab909 date: 2008-12-24 rating:
Excellent
Overall, this game feels very good - squad tactics are much more important than the CoD series and, with a few reservations (see below), it has an excellent "feel". There are a few issues:

1. In close combat with infantry, tanks should last about two minutes unless they're supported by freindly infantry - it's just not possible to see enough from inside the tank to fight someone who can sneak up from behind and drop a grenade down the hatch.
2. German tanks move and accelerate too fast.
3. Any hit with a 17 pounder on any part of an 88 (or most of the german tanks) at any range should wreck it instantly. Almost any hit with an 88 on a Sherman Firely should wreck it unless it's at long range.
4. Some of the scenarios (e.g. the burning building) are far too prescriptive.
5. Some of the scenarios channel the player to attack an 88 from the front, which is clearly suicidal.

Even taking all those gripes into accounts, it's still a really, really good game.

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review by: date: 2008-12-01 rating:
not Hidden & Dangerous
Nice graphics, shame about the game play. It still feels as if it is on rails. I could not make sense of the story line, probably because I did not care too much about it. What was the point of the bit that involved running through a burning building?

The hospital part was almost silent hill; for a few seconds, then just got boring, walk down corrider, hide behind sofa, shoot germans, walk on a bit, repeat, etc. I was hoping for something like Hidden & Dangerous.

Overall not bad, but wait until the price comes down.

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review by: mchumph date: 2008-11-24 rating:
pedestrian
I hoped this would be a supplement to CoD but I'm afraid it don't cut it (at least not compared to CoD4), and the game does seem to be several years behind in terms of execution.
Game play is totally linear with single paths through most maps - very minor variations in a couple of places but you are otherwise herded by ridiculous barriers. Only specific things appear to be jumpable.
Interactivity is dismal; you can't shoot anything much other than enemies (the "Sam Peckinpah" slow-motion gore-fest which pops up occasionally on a particularly accurate long-range shot is, admittedly, rather cool) - a few bits of wood maybe. Try to shoot your own side and they remain unscathed. You can't pick stuff up or kick anything....you can't even jump other than the aforementioned occasional fence hurdle.
I couldn't be arsed finishing it but by the time I'd given up I still hadn't got to shoot a bazooka. A couple of forays in a tank-which-can't-drive-over-very-much does not make up for a lack of variation in weaponry. Howabout maybe a sniper gun or summat to relieve the tedium a bit..?
But really, the most irritating aspect is the dreadful, cliched, tedious, pointless, dismally scripted and executed cut-scenes, which are almost all un-skippable...one after the other in some places. This ain't a movie (and if it was, noone in their right mind would pay to see it).


review by: princejaykay date: 2008-11-13 rating:
A great game
No doubt great gameplay, great graphics, got Far Cry 2 at the same time & hardly played it, online side is pretty poor & the worst part for me is how short the game is, I hardly get a chance to play & yet completed it in what seemed only a few visits to the pc, great game so 5 stars for fun but very short so only 3 stars overall.

Long cinematic scenes that really did my head in, they start, you can go to the loo, make a tea, eat your dinner, come back & it will only be halfway through one, yawn, if you port a game to pc at least give us the option of to watch all that or not. Same thing did my head in playing Assasins Creed, no need for it.

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